AN immersive artwork will allow audiences to step inside the heart of the Big Bang.

Described as “a multisensory experience of matter formation in the early universe”, the installation, named Halo, will have its UK premiere in Brighton later this month.

The audio visual installation will be at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts at the University of Sussex as part of Brighton Festival from May 19 to June 4.

Created using data collected at the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, the installation is an intricate mechanical structure with a 360-degree projection of scientific data which recreates the conditions shortly after the Big Bang.

The artwork draws the viewer into its centre to experience the particle-collisions taking place at the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

An array of 384 vertical wires are played by the same data, to produce the sound.

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The immersive installation was created by Brighton-based artist duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, known collectively as Semiconductor, in dialogue with particle physicists from the University of Sussex and the ATLAS experiment at CERN.

Its creators say the physics inside the ATLAS experiment enhances our understanding of the building blocks of matter and their interactions, and Halo will give audiences "a sense of something bigger than themselves, inspiring awe at the complexity of nature and at the elaborate systems humans create to understand the world around them".

Entry to the installation is free and tickets must be booked in advance for one hour slots to enable social distancing.

There will also be a series of free online talks and workshops alongside the exhibition.

To find out more or book tickets, visit www.attenboroughcentre.com.

draws the viewer into its centre in order to inhabit the results of particle-collisions taking place at the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN